Dexter Filkins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dexter Filkins
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 24, 1961(1961-05-24)
Age	63
Birthplace	Cincinnati
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Taurus

Dexter Filkins Biography

Dexter Filkins is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 24, 1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Dexter Price Filkins (born May 24 in 1961) is an American journalist best known for his coverage of conflict within Iraq as well as Afghanistan as a reporter for The New York Times. Filkins was one of the finalists in the Pulitzer Prize at the time of his 2002 reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan, and was awarded an award of a Pulitzer in 2009 with the team of Times reporters for their reports in Pakistan in addition to Afghanistan. He’s been referred to by the media as “the premier combat journalist of his generation”. He writes on behalf of The New Yorker.

In 2006 and 2007, Filkins was at Harvard University for the Nieman Fellowship. In 2007 and 2008 Filkins was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Filkins’ book, The Forever War (2008), chronicling his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, was a New York Times best-seller. The Forever War won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best nonfiction book of 2008, and was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by, among others, The New York Times, Amazon.com, The Washington Post, Time, and the Boston Globe.

Filkins has won two National Magazine Awards; in 2009, for his story, “Right At the Edge,” and in 2011 for “Bedrooms of the Fallen,” an essay with the photographer Ashley Gilbertson. Both pieces appeared in the New York Times Magazine.

Filkins has been awarded the two George Polk Awards, given every year to him by Long Island University to honor the journalistic integrity of his work as well as investigative journalism. Filkins was recognized for his reporting on the battle in Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004 when the Marine group he traveled with lost nearly a quarter of its members in the span of eight days. The year 2011 was the same. Filkins as well as The New York Times colleague Mark Mazzetti won for their coverage of Afghanistan as well as Pakistan.

Dexter Filkins Net Worth

Dexter Filkins is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dexter Filkins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Filkins obtained an B.A. at the level of political science, at the University of Florida in 1983 and also earned a master of philosophy on international relations at Oxford University (1984), where he was a pupil in St Antony’s College.

Prior to becoming a member of The Times beginning in the fall of 2000 Filkins served as New Delhi bureau chief of The Los Angeles Times for three years. He worked on behalf of The New York Times” Baghdad bureau in Iraq between 2003 and 2006.

Filkins’ article, “Right at the Edge” from September 7, 2008, was part of the body of work by the staff of The New York Times awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished reporting on international affairs.

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Dexter Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dexter Filkins celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.